Testimony of Healing July 22, 1985 Issue

Some years ago, after ten years of a marriage...

LaMAY F. KENT with contributions from THEODORE E. KENT

Some years ago, after ten years of a marriage that was at many times anything but happy and pleasant, my husband and I were seriously considering divorce. Our home was often filled with discord, loneliness, and unhappiness. My husband, Ted, was not at that time a Christian Scientist, and we seemed to have divergent interests and a basic incompatibility. We also held different views about drinking and about the manner in which our home should be run. After everything that had happened, there seemed to be no love left between us. Still, we had three small children who were depending on us.

Finally I felt led to ask a Christian Science practitioner to help me through prayer. With all my heart I really wanted to follow God and to do what was right in this situation. If I were to stay with my husband, I knew God would show me exactly how. Ted was seldom home and seemed irritated with me most of the time. I am certain that he was having as much difficulty loving me as I was having loving him. However, as a result of prayer and study of the Bible and Mary Baker Eddy's writings, I realized that my thought needed to be healed concerning Ted's drinking and heavy spending. I was reacting to the error instead of acting as a child of God.

The practitioner helped me see that I was not being asked to love Ted for what he did or did not do. Rather, I was being asked to love him for what he was—God's child. So with this thought in mind I set about loving the man of God's creating. At times this required a great discipline of thought, but I continued to pray to recognize God's goodness whenever and wherever it was being expressed.

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